[[ It's possible for the kernel to have intimate knowledge of themotherboard chipset and do the same thing that the BIOS does, but the kernelcannot know how every motherboard is wired c.f the recent APIC code. Sothe short answer "no" is pretty much accurate. ]]

> For example, is it possible to set to different interrupts five ethernet> cards if BIOS does not allow to choose which PCI card should use which> interrupt?